ETTRICK, Virginia - “The coach is the main reason why I came here.”
Alexis Smith, who went to Division I-level Drexel University in Philadelphia for three years and then afterward sat out for a year, remembered talking to Virginia State head coach James Hill Jr. over the summer and feeling that player-coach connection before she even joined the Trojans.
“And then, once I got here - so many transfers, but we gelled and clicked so well,” she said. “Even just coming here over the summer for a visit, all three of the coaches (Hill, Chiante Wester and Anthony Mills), we all just gelled.”
It was the kind of connection, Smith said, that you can’t just find everywhere.
Endia McKinney had been with VSU all four years, but this year, the difference she noticed with the team this time around was the chemistry.
“We worked well together,” she said. “Past teams, we had a lot of talent, but we didn’t always gel the way this team gelled so quickly...we learned how each other played so well, that and we listened to our coaches.”
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